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About This Book
In this essential guide, Starr Sackstein—a National Board Certified Teacher—explains how teachers can use reflection to help students decipher their own learning needs and engage in deep, thought-provoking discourse about progress. She explains how to help students set actionable learning goals, teach students to reflect on and chart their learning progress, and use student reflections and self-assessment to develop targeted learning plans and determine student mastery.
Filled with practical tips, innovative ideas, and sample reflections from real students, this book shows you how to incorporate self-assessment and reflection in ways that encourage students to grow into mindful, receptive learners, ready to explore a fast-changing world.
Topics : Assessment
Table Of Content
Introduction
What Is Reflection and Why Should We Teach It?
Getting Started with Reflection
Teaching Students to Self-Assess
Making Time to Reflect
Using Data from Reflection to Assess for Learning
Encore
References
Related ASCD Resources
About the Author
About the Authors
Starr Sackstein:
Starr Sackstein is an English and journalism teacher at World Journalism Preparatory School in Flushing, New York, where she has thrown out grades in favor of developing students’ ability to articulate their own growth. She also directs students in running a multimedia news outlet at WJPSnews.com.
A veteran educator, she started her career at Far Rockaway High School in New York more than 13 years ago. She was honored by the Dow Jones News Fund as a Special Recognition Adviser in 2011 and named an Outstanding Educator of the Year by Education Update in 2012.
She earned National Board Certification in 2013 and is a certified Master Journalism Educator through the Journalism Education Association (JEA). She serves as the New York State Director to JEA to help advisers in New York better grow journalism programs.
She is the author of Teaching Mythology Exposed: Helping Teachers Create Visionary Classroom Perspective (2014) and Blogging for Educators: Writing for Professional Learning (2015). She writes for Education Week Teacher’s blog Work in Progress in addition to maintaining her personal blog (StarrSackstein.com), where she discusses education reform and all aspects of being a teacher. She co-moderates #sunchat and contributes to #NYedChat on Twitter. She has made the Bammy Awards finals for Secondary High School Educator in 2014 and for Educational Commentator/Blogger in 2015. In speaking engagements, she talks about blogging, journalism education, throwing out grades and BYOD, and helping people see that technology doesn’t have to be feared.
She balances her busy career of writing and teaching with being the mom to 10-year-old Logan. Seeing the world through his eyes reminds her why education needs to change for every child.
She can be reached at [email protected], as well as through Twitter (@MsSackstein) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Starr-Sackstein-MJE/173509889399007).
ISBN: 9786038147399
Author: Sackstein, Starr
Publisher: Educational Book House
Publish Year: 2016
Size: 17*24cm
Pages number: 52
